Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de to [Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoWhat is the 'sunk cost fallacy'? Is it ever a good thing?theconversation.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up125
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minus-squareLinus_Torvalds@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year ago But be warned, this doesn’t work for everything: it seems that spending wildly on a wedding ceremony or engagement ring doesn’t have a “sunk cost” effect – it fails to increase the likelihood of staying married. LOL
minus-squareaodhsishaj@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoAre you the one true creator of git and kernel? Or are you just some pretender to the throne?
minus-squareLinus_Torvalds@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-21 year agoI’ll say what Linus would say: You shouldn’t trust me, even if I say that I’m THE LORD HIMSELF LINUS TORVALDS.
minus-squaretrolololol@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoSo you’re claiming to be the Lord himself, since you claim to say what you claim he (you) would say
LOL
Are you the one true creator of git and kernel? Or are you just some pretender to the throne?
I’ll say what Linus would say: You shouldn’t trust me, even if I say that I’m THE LORD HIMSELF LINUS TORVALDS.
So you’re claiming to be the Lord himself, since you claim to say what you claim he (you) would say